catalogue of video recordings (vhs, dvd) - The Japan Foundation
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<strong>Japan</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>, Sydney, Library<br />
Video <strong>catalogue</strong> (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number<br />
Title: Death note : movie collection<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2008].<br />
Physical description: 2 <strong>video</strong>discs (DVD) (feature length 121+135<br />
min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet ([24] p.). Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9<br />
anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.<br />
Language: Feature soundtrack in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with optional English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC rating: M, including Moderate supernatural violence.<br />
Summary: Light Yagami is a brilliant university student who resents the<br />
crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change<br />
when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note",<br />
lying on the ground. <strong>The</strong> Death Note's instructions claim that, if a<br />
human's name is written within it, that person will die.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 GOD<br />
Title: Godzilla : son <strong>of</strong> Godzilla = Kaijūtō no kessen : Gojira no musuko<br />
| directed by Jun Fukuda.|Godzilla : son <strong>of</strong> Godzilla = 怪 獣狎 島 の 決 戦 :<br />
ゴジラの 息 子 | directed by Jun Fukuda.|<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006].<br />
Physical description: 1 <strong>video</strong>disc (DVD, PAL, region 4) (feature length<br />
86 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; 16:9<br />
anamorphic wide screen (2.35:1) presentation; <strong>Japan</strong>ese soundtrack in<br />
5.1 Dolby Digital and <strong>Japan</strong>ese Dolby Dual Mono, English Dolby Dual<br />
Mono.<br />
Language: Feature soundtrck in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with English subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Mild violence<br />
Summary: "On a tropical island in the Pacific, a group <strong>of</strong> scientists<br />
conduct weather experiments. A malfunction creates a radioactive<br />
storm, causing the local Praying Nantis colony to grouw to ver 100<br />
feet tall. <strong>The</strong> Mntis colony finds a giant egg, which contains Minilla -<br />
Son fo Godzilla. Soon Godzilla arrives to teach his son the skills to<br />
help him become a future 'King <strong>of</strong> Monsters'. Son <strong>of</strong> Godzilla is a fun<br />
adventure for all the family." -- FROM CONTAINER.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 GOD<br />
Title: Godzilla | directed by Ishiro Honda.<br />
Edition: Special 50th anniversary ed. two movies on one disc<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c1954, c1956<br />
Physical description: 1 <strong>video</strong>disc (DVD, PAL, region 4) (175 min.) :sd.,<br />
b&w ;4 3/4 in.+ notes Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame<br />
original ratio (4:3) presentation; <strong>Japan</strong>ese sound track in 5.1 Dolby<br />
Digital & 2.0 Dolby Digital.<br />
Language: Feature soundtrack in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with optional English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Low level violence.<br />
Summary: "This original <strong>Japan</strong>ese <strong>of</strong> the 1954 classic, completely<br />
uncut, is available for the first time ever in Australia. Director Ishiro<br />
Honda's original masterpiece <strong>of</strong> monster mayhem is also pwerful anti<br />
Nuclear statement- which was cut from the US version." -- FROM<br />
CONTAINER.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 ICH<br />
Title: Tony Takitani = Tonī Takitani | Written and directed by Ichikawa<br />
Jun.|Tony Takitani = トニー 滝 谷 | written and directed by 市 川 準 .|<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Aztec International Entertainment,<br />
[2006].<br />
Physical description: 1 <strong>video</strong>disc (DVD) (feature length 75 min.) :sd.,<br />
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-5 (Region 4, PAL); single layer; anamorphic<br />
wide screen (16:9) presentation; <strong>Japan</strong>ese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby<br />
Digital.<br />
Language: Feature soundtrack in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with optional English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC rating: PG, including Mild <strong>The</strong>mes.<br />
Summary: "Alienated by his English name and from his own feelings <strong>of</strong><br />
neglect <strong>of</strong> his father, a jazz trumpeter, Tony Takitani becomes a skilled<br />
engineering draughtsman. One day he falls for Eiko, courts and marries<br />
her and knows happiness for the first time in his life except that she<br />
has a compulsion to buy expensive designer clothes. Tragedy soon<br />
strikes and Tony is alone again." -- FROM CONTAINER.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 IMA<br />
Title: <strong>The</strong> eel = Unagi | directed by Shohei Imamura.<br />
Series title: Directors suite. Shohei Imamura<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c1997<br />
Physical description: 1 <strong>video</strong>disc (DVD) (feature length 146 min.) :sd.,<br />
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-9 (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic<br />
wide screen (16:9) presentation; <strong>Japan</strong>ese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby<br />
Digital.<br />
Language: Feature soundtrack in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with optional English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC rating: R18+, including High level violence.<br />
Summary: "After an anonymous tip-<strong>of</strong>f, white collar worker, Takuro<br />
Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), brutally stabs his wife and her lover in a<br />
jealous rage. After eight years in prison, he is relocated to a small<br />
town where he befriends a fisherman, a priest and an eel. Reopening a<br />
ramshackle barbershop, he meets several <strong>of</strong> the town's eccentric<br />
locals, none <strong>of</strong> whom are aware <strong>of</strong> his troubled past. One <strong>of</strong> these, the<br />
beautiful Keiko Hattori (Misa Shimizu), looks strikingly similar to the<br />
wife he had murdered almost a decade before. Grudgingly employing<br />
her as his assistant, Yamashita soon finds his business booming and<br />
vainly attempts to repress his growing desire for her. Just as their<br />
world begins to find some semblance <strong>of</strong> harmony, Yamashita's former<br />
prison-mate threatens to expose his secreat, and Keiko's former lover<br />
has his eye on the family fortune". -- FRON CONTAINER.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 INA<br />
Title: Daredevil in the castle | produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka ;<br />
screenplay by Hiroshi Inagaki and Takeshi Kimura ; directed by Hiroshi<br />
Inagaki.<br />
Publisher: [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1961.<br />
Physical description: 1 <strong>video</strong>disc (DVD) (feature length 94 min.) :sd.,<br />
col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording<br />
System requirements:DVD-5 (Region 4, PAL); single layer; anamorphic<br />
wide screen (2.35:1) presentation; <strong>Japan</strong>ese soundtrack in dual mono<br />
Dolby Digital<br />
Language: Feature soundtrack in <strong>Japan</strong>ese with optional English<br />
subtitles.<br />
Rating: OFLC ratin: M, including Moderate violence.<br />
Summary: "With his family killed, the samurai Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is<br />
lost in despair. After arriving in the city <strong>of</strong> Osaka, the ruling Toyotomi<br />
clan enlist Mohei for his sperior samurai skills in battle. Soon, his skills<br />
will be put to the ultimate test as Osaka Castle is besieged by a<br />
powerful rival army and Mohei's daredevil nature emerges." -- from<br />
container.<br />
Call Number: 778.21 INA<br />
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